There is growing concern on Capitol Hill that a recent spike in the number of foreigners arrested in the United States on terrorism charges is the result of a flawed Obama administration immigration policy that will grant residence to around 170,000 individuals from Muslim-majority nations in the coming year, according to conversations with lawmakers and congressional sources.
With the indictment last week of two Iraqi refugees who allegedly conspired with ISIS, a number of lawmakers are now warning that poor screening methods and an administration plan to boost immigration will endanger national security.
Recent efforts by Congress to investigate the immigration histories of at least 113 foreign-born individuals snagged on terror charges since 2014 have been blocked by the Obama administration. There are at least 1,000 open investigations into ISIS members residing in the United States, sources said.
New cases of legal immigrants participating in alleged terrorist plots are cropping up on a near daily basis, according to Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas), who has been spearheading an effort to investigate how these individuals are passing through U.S. security screenings.
“Almost every day there is a new case that documents the relentless attacks being waged against our nation,” said Cruz. “We have militants who have infiltrated waves of refugees to come to American and plot attacks. We have Americans who have travelled abroad to train returning to wage jihad here. We have home-grown terrorists who are receiving instruction online to hatch attacks.”
“We have to stop treating this pattern as the isolated actions of lone wolves,” Cruz added. “They are a pack.”
Networks of radicalized individuals are already forming within the United States due to a massive influx of more than 680,000 immigrants from Muslim-majority nations during the past five years, according to Stephen Miller, spokesman for Sen. Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.), another lawmaker who has worked to expose flaws in the U.S. immigration system.
“Unprecedented rates of migration, combined with poor screening, have created a perfect storm,” Miller said. “There are now nearly 1,000 open ISIS investigations within our borders, and underneath these cases are large extremists networks made possible by a total lack of immigration controls.”..
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Counter the Creeping Islamization of America, Fred Elbel, The Social Contract, Spring 2014
Video: John ;Guandolo discusses the threat that Islam poses to Homeland Security in the United States. Presented at the Social Contract Writers' Workshop, September 29, 2013.
Book: Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives have Penetrated Washington, by Paul Sperry, 2008.
Video: Exposing Obama's muslim operatives, Facebook.
Video: Three Stages of Jihad, David Wood, Youtube.
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Pamela Geller - Atlas Shrugs. Also see Free Speech Foes Attack Anti-Jihad Site as Free Speech Rally against Sharia Succeeds, January 19, 2015.
Refugee Resettlement Watch
Limits To Growth
The Reigion of Peace
Creeping Sharia
Counter Jihad
Islam Watch
Political Islam has subjugated civilizations for 1,400 years - excellent videos.
CAIRCO Research
Syrian refugees and national security
Refugee Resettlement
